April 09, 2010, 7:01AM

Investigators had to wait days for the body of Arletha Hopkins to thaw, even using the Jaws of Life to peel away the walls of the freezer where she lay, a forensic scientist testified Thursday. Full story »

April 07, 2010, 5:00AM

Through the years of sexually abusing and controlling his stepdaughter, Anthony Hopkins warned her not to tell anyone about her mother's dead body, entombed in a freezer, or she would be "cursed by God," the young woman testified Tuesday. Full story »

April 06, 2010, 5:00AM

Anthony Jujuan Hopkins on Monday faced a courtroom of potential jurors who would hear prosecutors attempt to prove that Hopkins killed his wife and stuffed her body into a freezer. He killed her after she discovered him sexually abusing his stepdaughter, prosecutors said. Full story »

February 24, 2010, 8:46AM

Rickey Cleston Woods, 50, was charged with two counts of first-degree sodomy and one count each of incest, first-degree rape and first-degree sex abuse, said Mobile police spokesman Officer Christopher Levy. Full story »

February 03, 2010, 6:02AM

SOUTHSIDE, Ala. -- Thirty-eight-year-old Shannon Ray Amberson of Southside has been charged with incest and second-degree rape in a case that stems from incidents alleged to have begun in 1999 and to have continued for several years. Full story »

January 14, 2010, 6:09AM

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- John Earl Pearson, a 41-year-old Tuscaloosa man, has been charged with first-degree rape, sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 and incest in connection with a July incident involving an 11-year-old. Full story »

September 24, 2009, 2:57PM

NEW YORK -- Mackenzie Phillips is defending her father John Phillips as "a good man" despite her claims that they had an incestuous affair. But her stepmother Michelle Phillips says Phillips is lying about the affair and is just trying to cash in on her book. The 49-year-old former child actress writes in her new book, "High on Arrival,"... Full story »

November 26, 2008, 2:26PM

MOBILE, Ala. - A Grand Bay man was sent to prison today for 30 years for having sex with an underage girl. Circuit Judge James Wood sentenced Clifton Allen Lavinskey, 36, to 20 years for second-degree rape and 10 years for first-degree sex abuse, then ordered that the sentences be served consecutively, or one after the other. Full story »

November 07, 2008, 5:21PM

MOBILE, Ala. -- A Mount Vernon preacher was sentenced to 30 months in prison Thursday for incest, a crime his accuser said he committed nine years ago when she was a teenager. The Rev. Leonard Frazier, 56, apologized to the victim's family during sentencing before Circuit Judge Rick Stout. Full story »

September 24, 2008, 12:41PM

MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile police arrested 60-year-old Michael Eugene Barton of Mobile on incest, rape and other charges after a girl known to him told her mother he had been having intercourse with her since she was 8, authorities said. Full story »

August 01, 2008, 4:43PM

The bond hearing scheduled today for Anthony Jujuan Hopkins, accused of killing his wife and hiding her body in a freezer, was postponed until Tuesday morning in District Judge Charles McKnight's courtroom, authorities said. The freezer containing the body of 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins was removed from the couple's home in the 200 block of Rylands Street on Monday night and... Full story »